Marnee Morris performs a dance.
Topic: dance
Through monologue, "Glass Curtain" explores a woman's pain and fear as she confronts her aging mother's struggle with Alzheimer's disease.
Topics: Doris Chase, drama, women, Alzheimer's disease, monologue, video art
Shots of a harbor. Three people in kimonos wandering around taking pictures. An old building with a turret and a Christian statue in front, family is wandering around surrounding grounds. People visiting a memorial and looking out over the harbor. Aerial shots of a harbor on a foggy day. Man walking along a path. Steeple visible behind trees and telephone wires. Gathering of Japanese men. Family visiting at fountain/shrine. People walking across red Japanese bridge. People walking around...
Topics: Kawanishi, silent, color, 8mm, Hokkaido, bridges, architecture, kimonos, city life, Hikawa Maru
Chelsea Hotel documents the Chelsea Hotel, home of the artist Doris Chase from 1972 to 2004. Created by Doris Chase, this documentary includes interviews with residents of the Chelsea.
Topic: documentary film
Gus Solomons, Jr. performs a dance.
Topic: dance
Shots of mountain, farmland, and river from moving vehicle. Trees over water. Panning shots of Japanese village by the water. Shots of body of water and surrounding hills. People in kimonos walking down wooded path. Buildings on pikes above water. Person walking below pier. Shots of Japanese style red buildings. Statues on pedestals on the beach. Shots of trees on a foggy day. Men in kimonos walking out of building into garden. Men in kimono walking across farmland. Family walking up hill...
Topics: Kawanishi, silent, color, 8mm, Japan, village life, architecture, castle, landscape, family
Oral History interview with Jolene McCann, high school teacher and Seattle Education Association building representative, about working during the COVID-19 pandemic completed on October 30, 2020. This interview is part of the Working in the Time of COVID-19 Oral History Project by the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries. Laborarchives.org This item contains three parts: oral history audio/video file, caption file (.srt), and full text transcription (.pdf).
Topics: Working in the Time of COVID-19 Oral History Project, COVID-19, pandemic, PPE, personal protective...
A documentary examining the life and sculpture of Isamu Noguchi, including his 1969 work Black Sun.
Topics: Isamu Noguchi, Seattle Art Museum, art, sculpture, documentary
This video contains footage filmed by Karl Kernberger on a 1963 trip driving through Canada to Alaska and then down the Yukon River on 2300-mile boat journey. The boat trip along the Yukon River began at Lake Bennett in British Columbia and ended in Alakanuk, Alaska, on the Bering Sea. Other members of the expedition included Kernberger’s friend J. Michael Jenkinson, Rafen Moon (Kathy) Jenkinson, Bill Carpenter, and John Loehr. A Swiss reporter, Maurice Bettex, also joined the group for some...
Topics: Yukon, Alaska, British Columbia, Klondike, expedition
Footage of a Japanese village, and then landscape of river and mountains and farms all from a moving vehicle. Person walking around Japanese garden. Blurry view of town by river. Japanese family wandering around desert setting gathering flowers. Shots of cherry trees. Panning shots around an observatory that family is checking out. Shaky views of Japanese buildings. Three people walking in front of a large concrete building and then shots of the building and its surroundings. Shaky blurry views...
Topics: Kawanishi, silent, color, 8mm, Japan, cherry blossoms, military, landscape
A dadaist experimental film featuring animation and moving text.
Topics: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, video, art, dadaism
Family scenes, predominantly focused on children, but also including footage of Eleanor Roosevelt. Includes: scenes of people holding/playing with a baby, probably at a third birthday party, children playing outdoors, children riding tricycles, Eleanor Roosevelt and her motorcade, and a man climbing into a fighter plane and taking off.
Topics: David Lee Burgess, Jessie Hugh Burgess, silent, black and white, color, 8mm, Eleanor Roosevelt, aero
Dancer (Kei Takei) dances to jazz music
Topics: Doris Chase, Kei Takei, George Kleinsinger, jazz, dance
A woman showcases many instances of lies. Afterwards follows an excerpt of a conversation on artistic collaboration between Lee Breuer, Doris Chase and Ruth Maleczech.
Topics: Doris Chase, Lies
Printmaker Glen Alps discusses the collagraph method of printing and its origins at the University of Washington School of Art. Alps examines several completed works and offers a demonstration of the method.
Topics: printmaking, art, Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, Glen Alps
Circling Moon
Topics: Doris Chase, Circling Moon
A dancer performs a contemporary dance piece.
Topics: Doris Chase, Circles, Dance
Oral History interview with Paul Kurose, instructor at North Seattle College and member of the American Federation of Teachers, local 1789, about working during the COVID-19 pandemic. Completed on May 5, 2021. This interview is part of the Working in the Time of COVID-19 Oral History Project by the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries. Laborarchives.org This item contains three parts: oral history audio/video file, caption file (.srt), and full text transcription...
Topics: Seattle COVID-19 Oral History Project, Working in the Time of COVID-19 Oral History Project,...
Cynthia Anderson performs a dance.
Topic: dance
Views of body of water and landmasses in it. View of a monument in front of a body of water and some trees. Family standing on cliff over water. Views of wooded cliffs over water. Family sits on beach picnicking. Bridge over body of water. Back to family picnicking and playing on the beach. Women playing in the water. Military funeral procession. Large gathering of people around event tents at dusk. Gun salute to the dead. Family smiling at camera in large marble building. Large gathering of...
Topics: Kawanishi, silent, color, 8mm, military funeral, parade
Three dancers perform a choreography by Mary Station using structures.
Topics: Doris Chase, Moon Gates, Dance
Moon Redefined
Topic: video art
Title: Reel 4 - Prison Original format: 1-inch Type C Item No.: PHColl2016-080_Morell_T53 Footage shot in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Includes footage of a prison, construction sites, and scenery around Albuquerque. There are two segments with audio: at 0:20:23, a person in a suit discusses training prison inmates to do construction; at 0:31:34, a person discusses setting up computer training program in a prison. At 0:43:32, Larry Hill gives a brief interview about why he is interested in...
Topics: computers, New Mexico, Albequerque, Prison, Education, vocational training, computer history,...
Circles
Topics: Doris Chase, Circles
A promotional film about the Seattle Art Museum in 1953.
Topics: Seattle Art Museum, silent, black and white, 16mm, promotional film
Oral History interview with Clayton Dela Cruz of ILWU Local 142, collected by the Pacific Coast Pensioners Association Oral History Committee. Completed on September 19, 2018. This interview is part of the Pacific Coast Pensioners Association Oral History Project by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries. Laborarchives.org This item contains three parts: oral history audio/video file (.mp4), full text...
Topics: ILWU Local 142, Hawai'i, sugar plantation, ethnicity, camps, Philippines, sugar industry, hotel...
A dramatic theater and dance performance, "Mask" is the journey of a woman of color looking inside of herself, her history, and her true source of strength.
Topics: Doris Chase, drama, theater, dance
A documentary about the architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown, focusing on their influence in postmodern architecture.
Topics: architecture, Seattle Art Museum, art, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott-Brown, Frank Gary, Peter...
A Seattle Art Museum publicity film featuring children playing on the Chinese camel sculptures outside of the Seattle Art Museum.
Topics: Seattle Art Museum, silent, black and white, 16mm, publicity film, sculptures, children
Narrated by Doris Chase, a documentary discussion of her work and sculpture process.
Topics: Doris Chase, documentary, sculpture, Seattle artists, Women motion picture producers and directors
(1) People skii on a snowy mountain. (2) A parade of cars, floats, military with American flags, dragon dance performers, passes through downtown Seattle. (3) People in kimono perform with fans. (4) Vendors lit by paper lanterns sell Japanese food, coffee.
Topics: Kawanishi, silent, color, 8mm, Japan, Hawaii, skiing, parade, kimono
A person boards a Pan American airplane and the plane departs. Aerial shots of mountains and landscape below. Aerial views of a city and park. Beach with rocks and crashing waves. Several shots of trees, a man and a woman. Women hula dancing. A seal on a shore. A man and woman stand in front of a blue car. A group of people stand in front of a large building with a gate. People walk through a botanical garden. A woman sits near a beach, and a man stands in the water fishing. Several shots of...
Topics: Kawanishi, silent, color, 8mm, Japan, Hawaii, beach, seal, garden, flowers
A discussion of Chinese painting methods with demonstrations and examples.
Topics: Seattle Art Museum, sound, color, 16mm, demonstration, Chinese, painting, Chinese script, Hanzi,...
Children playing with blocks and sculptures to help with learning.
Topics: Doris Chase, sculpture, children
Circus scenes, including: groups of elephants performing tricks, clowns walking in costume, a man applying full facial makeup, men and women in various costumes, a man dressing a chimpanzee in clothing, a clown aiding a boy to play with a lion cub, an adult lion, men and women on horseback, clowns performing with animals, a man whirling whips, a man performing balancing acts on a bench, a dog balancing on its hind legs while holding an American flag, and a seal.
Topics: Jessie Hugh Burgess, circus, silent, color, 8mm, family films
Various scenes of loggers working. Includes scenes of men in boats and on the logs, men manipulating the logs using poles, a man using a large chainsaw to cut logs, a man operating a bulldozer as well as white roofed structures along the side of a river.
Topics: Jessie Hugh Burgess, silent, color, 8mm, logging, Potlatch Forests
Boys in suits playing with a dog, formally dressed people picking flowers in a garden, snow-covered trees and houses, a parade, children holding signs supporting the Wallace/Taylor Progressive party presidential ticket, Henry Wallace and entourage arriving by airplane, people at a cemetery, the "Old Faithful Geyser" at Yellowstone, wild animals, and an outdoor event featuring many people on horseback as well as stagecoaches.
Topics: Jessie Hugh Burgess, silent, color, 8mm, parade, Henry Wallace, Old Faithful, Yellowstone
In the words of Doris Chase, "in 'Electra Tries to Speak,' the capacity of a woman to play many roles, as all women do, is demonstrated.
Topics: theater, drama, art, women
Jonathan Hollander performs a contemporary dance piece.
Topics: Doris Chase, Dance
Title: African Studies Super 8 Dub, Nuna Masquerade Original format: 1 inch Item No.: PHColl2016-080_Morell_T1 Title comes from label on box. Part of the Karen Morell Film, Audio and Videotape Collection.
Topics: Karen Morell, Africa, African Dance, Dance, Masquerade, Ethnomusicology, University of Washington
A woman in a red dress holds a snake in demonstration. There are horses, llamas, zebras, elephants on the carnival grounds. Monkeys and lions are in separate cages. A person dressed as a clown sits with a duck; it appears that they are talking to the duck. Another person dressed as a clown ties a small dog’s collar to a rope, using the rope as a leash and walking with the dog. The duck wheels a tiny cart behind it as the clown assists. There are women in various costumes. A woman in a pink...
Topics: Jessie Hugh Burgess, circus, silent, color, 8mm, family films
Three dancers perform Mary Staton's choreography using tall arches in their performance.
Topics: Doris Chase, Tall Arches, Dance
Oral History interview with Gerald Anderson of ILWU Local 52, collected by the Pacific Coast Pensioners Association Oral History Committee. Completed on September 18, 2018. This interview is part of the Pacific Coast Pensioners Association Oral History Project by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries. Laborarchives.org This item contains three parts: oral history audio/video file (.mp4), full text transcription...
Topics: Lee Anderson, Shaun Maloney, John Mahoney, crane operators, 1971 ILWU strike, Mechanization and...
Oral History interview with Arthur (Art) Alameida of ILWU Local 13, collected by the Pacific Coast Pensioners Association Oral History Committee. Completed on September 16-18, 2013. This interview is part of the Pacific Coast Pensioners Association Oral History Project by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries. Laborarchives.org This item contains two parts: oral history audio/video file and full text...
Topics: Pacific Coast Pensioners Association, International Longshore and Warehouse Union, oral history,...
Oral History interview with Sadie Williams, wife of Cleophas Williams, of ILWU Local 10, collected by the Pacific Coast Pensioners Association Oral History Committee. Completed on September 17, 2019. This interview is part of the Pacific Coast Pensioners Association Oral History Project by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries. Laborarchives.org This item contains three parts: oral history audio/video file...
Topics: Pacific Coast Pensioners Association, International Longshore and Warehouse Union, oral history,...
This video contains footage filmed by Karl Kernberger on a 1963 trip driving through Canada to Alaska and then down the Yukon River on 2300-mile boat journey. The boat trip along the Yukon River began at Lake Bennett in British Columbia and ended in Alakanuk, Alaska, on the Bering Sea. Other members of the expedition included Kernberger’s friend J. Michael Jenkinson, Rafen Moon (Kathy) Jenkinson, Bill Carpenter, and John Loehr. A Swiss reporter, Maurice Bettex, also joined the group for some...
Topics: Yukon, Alaska, British Columbia, Klondike, expedition
Artist in Motion is a short documentary about Doris Chase's career and artistic expression which has developed over the course of years working with various aspects of video and editing. Many of her works are featured throughout, such as dance videos or computer works.
Topics: Doris Chase, Artist, Documentary
Includes scenes of a parade (possibly in Lewiston, ID). Many scenes of members of the Shriners organization wearing fezzes and marching/riding in cars. Some are wearing Arab style tunics (thawbs). The parade also includes Boy Scouts (including members of Kiwanis Troop 128), Cub Scouts (Including members of Webster Cub Pack 122), cheer leaders and marching bands (including one from Lapwai Idaho High School) and men in some form of ceremonial attire. Film also has scenes of men riding horses and...
Topics: Jessie Hugh Burgess, silent, color, 8mm, parade, horse show, Boy Scouts, Harold Lloyd, family films
(1) A group of people walk through Seward Park Torii and flowers. Two women walk through Volunteer Park and feed koi carp. A woman walks through Rose Garden. (2) Families do domestic chores, cleaning a dog, mowing the lawn, trimming bushes, washing a car. (3) A group of people forage mushrooms and plants. (4) People in hats and suits feed pigeons in the city. (5) A garden of Chrysanthemum. (6) A football game in a stadium.
Topics: Kawanishi, silent, color, 8mm, Seward Park, Volunteer Park, Rose Garden, football, family film
Shots of a wooded shore line from a body of water, there are several boats in the water as well as buildings on the shore. Scenes of a Japanese city. People walk across a large footbridge spanning a river, some people wade and play in the river. Another footbridge, this one red. Many people enter a Japanese shrine. The shrine has many sculpted details of foliage and animals. A long and winding road runs down the side of a hill. Several small waterfalls run down a mountain. A large body of water...
Topics: Kawanishi, silent, color, Super 8, Japan, Kintaibashi, Nikko, Tokyo, Meiji Shrine, Hama Rikyu,...
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Topics: Doris Chase, Plexi Radar
Clip from dance performed by Marnee Morris.
Topics: dance, Doris Chase, ballet
Various rodeo scenes, men and women (predominantly men) in western attire performing feats of horsemanship and skill within a dirt arena. Includes scenes of rodeo clowns performing with a bull as well as a small amount of bull riding.
Topics: Jessie Hugh Burgess, silent, color, 8mm, rodeo
Title: African Encounters: Prophet Healers of Northern Malawi Original format: 1-inch Type C Item No.: PHColl2016-080_Morell_T10 This film explores spirit possession in the healing complex of the Tumbuka speaking peoples of northern Malawi. The program focuses on healers called nchimi who employ elements of Christianity and traditional spirit beliefs in the medical practice creating a syncretic form of religious healing. Music and dance are featured in footage of divination trances. Presented...
Topics: Tumbuka, Malawi, African Encounters, University of Washington, Prophet healers, spirit, dance,...
The Mary Staton Dance Ensemble performs a ballet dance piece using rings of circles in their performance.
Topics: Doris Chase, Circles, Dance
Oral History interview with Alex Mason, steamfitter apprentice and member of Plumbers & Pipefitters UA Local 32 about working during the COVID-19 pandemic. Completed on September 28, 2020. This interview is part of the Working in the Time of COVID-19 Oral History Project by the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries. Laborarchives.org This item contains three parts: oral history audio/video file, caption file (.srt), and full text transcription (.pdf).
Topics: Working in the Time of COVID-19 Oral History Project, COVID-19, pandemic, PPE, personal protective...
A woman has a conversation with a man on the phone.
Topics: Doris Chase, Coversation
Oral History interview with pianist, music director, sound engineer and Boston Musicians' Association member David Sparr about working during the COVID-19 pandemic completed on June 5, 2020. This interview is part of the Working in the Time of COVID-19 Oral History Project by the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries. Laborarchives.org This item contains three parts: oral history audio/video file, caption file (.srt), and full text transcription (.pdf).
Topics: Musical Work in the Time of COVID-19, Working in the Time of COVID-19 Oral History Project,...
[1] View from above of Orcas Island. The camera pans around to see the surrounding water and forest areas. A few people gather and look up at a large stone building with an antenna. The camera shows boats at a dock and a boat sailing. Three men ride a small boat onto the water. There is a line of cabins along the waterfront of the Obstruction Pass Resort. People are sitting outside their cabins and on logs. Some people wade the water. A group of five men get in a boat and start its engine. This...
Topics: Kawanishi, silent, color, 8mm, Orcas Island, Obstruction Pass Resort, boats, Garfield High School,...
Oral History interview with Penny Jarigese of ILWU Local 8, collected by the Pacific Coast Pensioners Association Oral History Committee. Completed on September 16, 2019. This interview is part of the Pacific Coast Pensioners Association Oral History Project by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries. Laborarchives.org This item contains three parts: oral history audio/video file (.mp4), caption track (.srt), and...
Topics: casual, women, foreman, Alaska, female longshoreman, lashing, Pacific Coast Pensioners Association,...
Doris Chase talking about her life, family, work. Segments of her video work featured as well as her sculptures. Includes interviews with Doris Chase and others including Richard Lorber, writer/critic, and Ann Eugenia Volkes, artist/video editor.
Topics: Doris Chase, documentary, interview, video art, dance, sculpture, Women directors
Squares
Topics: Doris Chase, Squares
Three dancers perform a choreography piece by Mary Staton using rocking oval-shaped rings.
Topics: Doris Chase, Rocking Orange, Dance
Clip of a dance performed by Cynthia Anderson.
Topic: dance
Doris Chase talking about the By Herself series. Features segments from the different stories of the series. Chase presented the series to a retirement center and audience reactions are featured as well.
Topics: drama, film, series, women
This interview was conducted by Ronda Skubi, who was a student in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington in 1975. Skubi undertook this and other interviews for a student paper, entitled Women in Landscape Architecture . In this interview Dorothy Hussey discusses her education and career in landscape architecture in California. She talks about early influences on her career choice and her education in landscape design at Berkeley. She discusses her work...
Topics: landscape architects, women, oral history, interview, landscape architecture
Circus scenes including: Trailer labeled Seal Brothers Circus, A dog trainer, elephants, horses, caged lions, men and women in costume, a man standing on horseback performing what appears to be lasso tricks, a sword swallower, a man riding an elephant, trampoline acrobatics and a fire eater.
Topics: Jessie Hugh Burgess, circus, silent, color, 8mm, family films, Seal Brothers Circus
View of body of water and small mountains on a cloudy day. Man riding horse in front of buses. Buses in parking lot. Gondola lift going down. Shots of mountain with gondola station at the top. Group of people in front of buses. Shots of town and road at night. Smoking piles of rocks. People walking around the area which is likely Hiroshima. Some intact buildings are viewable in the background. Signs with Japanese writing on it. Man in police hat and white shirt and tie leaves building. Well...
Topics: Kawanishi, silent, color, Super 8, Unsen, Sasebo, Hiroshima, architecture, boats, military
On a boat viewing the Inland Sea, looking at the waters and islands. A large group of people gather on the deck of a boat. They are dressed in business casual attire. A boat leaves the dock and the camera pans to the building along the seawall. Smoke fog rises from a distance, near buildings. People congregate in a busy area, near the smoke and a koi pond. Smoke rose emerge from the waters. There is a Japanese style garden with a line of Red Tori Gates and other traditional Japanese buildings....
Topics: Kawanishi, silent, color, Super 8, Japan, Inland Sea, Beppu, Aso, Kumamoto, Amakusa, Shimabara,...
This video contains footage filmed by Karl Kernberger on a 1963 trip driving through Canada to Alaska and then down the Yukon River on 2300-mile boat journey. The boat trip along the Yukon River began at Lake Bennett in British Columbia and ended in Alakanuk, Alaska, on the Bering Sea. Other members of the expedition included Kernberger’s friend J. Michael Jenkinson, Rafen Moon (Kathy) Jenkinson, Bill Carpenter, and John Loehr. A Swiss reporter, Maurice Bettex, also joined the group for some...
Topics: Yukon, Alaska, British Columbia, Klondike, expedition
A silent demonstration of special effects.
Topics: Doris Chase, demo, computer effects
Title: Reel 3 - Prison Original format: 1-inch Type C Item No.: PHColl2016-080_Morell_T52 Footage shot in St. Louis, Missouri. Silent. Students in a computer training program, potentially at Chillicothe Correctional Center in Chillicothe, Missouri. Some audio at 0:19:13, 0:24:32, 0:26:14, 0:28:32, 0:33:42, 0:38:25, 0:42:30, 0:44:04, 0:53:31, 0:55:40, 0:59:55. This material is part of the Karen Morell Film, Audio and Videotape Collection. Learn more about the collection here:...
Topics: Prison, education, computer training, vocational training, Missouri, St. Louis, Chillicothe
Footage of the Roger Bros. 3 Ring Circus in Moscow, ID on the weekend of July 26. A man performs sleight of hand magic tricks for a young spectator. A ringmaster performs a dog show. They walk on barrels, run through hoops, walk on two legs, jump rope, dance, tightrope, and perform other balancing acts. Spectators lean on cars and watch. A whip master cuts reeds a female assistant holds in her hands and mouth. He also splits newspapers in half. Another performer orchestrates dog tricks such as...
Topics: Jessie Hugh Burgess, silent, color, 8mm, circus
Dancer (Gay Delanghe) dances to jazz music by the Uptown Lowdown Jazz Band
Topics: Doris Chase, Uptown Lowdown Jazz Band, Gay Delanghe, dance, jazz, jazz, dance
(1) A family eating at a wooden dining room table. (2) Individuals hand out and unwrap Christmas gifts in front of a decorated tree. (3) Individuals board a “Pan American” plane. The camera follows the plane as it taxis and takes off. (4) Imagery surrounding a campsite near Mt. Rainier, including flowers, glaciers, and waterfalls in the Paradise area. (5) Footage of the water and beaches near Deception Pass.
Topics: Kawanishi, silent, color, 8mm, Christmas, Pan-American, Mt. Rainier, Deception Pass
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